Won't argue with your figures, & I ain't a historian so please if anyone knows different please say so, but to my knowledge the assistance provided by the US to Britain during WWII was not "free". It had to be paid back, at least in part, which is why rationing continued in Britain for so long, well after the end of the war.
Regards Malcolm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 April 2005 01:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OFF TOPIC] Re: [Biofuel] Re: The Energy Crunch To Come Hakan, you are not well informed. World War II killed and missing ...............armed forces K&M....... total population of country Australia............26,976.................6 million New Zealand..........11,625.................2 million Canada...............42,042................11 million Britain.............357,116................45 million France..............210,000................45 million USA.................405,399...............125 million USSR..low est.....6,115,000...............170 million? Germany...........3,500,000................65 million Japan.............1,270,000................80 million Finland..............80,000.................3 million The initial landings of the Normandy invasion comprised Infantry divisions 2 USA, 2 British, 1 Canadian Airborne divisions 2 USA, 1 British By the end of the war in Europe the Americans had about 2.5 million men on the continent, the British about 850,000. In the Pacific, the way from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa was a hard bloody slog. The U.S. Navy and Marines alone had about 60,000 killed and missing, almost all in the Pacific. The U.S. navy had 5 fleet carriers sunk, at least one other was never returned to service after being damaged, and lost many other lesser warships. In August 1945 Japan was incapable of doing anything except resisting am invasion with existing stockpiles; it could acquire or make no fuel and little in the way of weapons or ammunition. It could not threaten its enemies seriously. The atomic bombs were a political weapon useful in persuading the insane Japanese army-controlled government to surrender, as well as in intimidating the USSR. The Allies could have blockaded the Japanese home islands until the Japanese surrendered, but the American people and politicians weren't willing to wait. The USA, once the Japanese and Germans insisted that it join the war, made a tremendous military and naval effort. In addition the Soviet war effort was heavily dependent on American supplies for everything from food to aluminum. The mobility of the Red Army depended largely on tens of thousands of American trucks. The British war effort also depended heavily on supplies and equipment provided free by the U.S. - after the British had bankrupted themselves carrying on the war almost single-handed. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
